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Forecast results are not worthless, as they could be used to get a conditional offer of a place subject to meeting the requirements stipulated when a candidate obtains his/ her actual results.

In the UK, students are given conditional offers for A level places in the colleges of their choices based on the forecast or predicted grades! BUT they do not begin their study until they have their OFFICIAL or ACTUAL GCSE results.

Likewise for university intake. Universities give them conditional acceptance based on forecast results, but the final verdict of whether a person is able to accept the place offered is subject to him/her meeting the grades stipulated or expected by the university.

In Malaysia, our private colleges are earning so much by taking in drones of students based on forecast results, and many students disappear when they have their actual SPM results.

So while this new ruling is good for parents (like me, whose son is pestering to go to expensive, cut-throat A level colleges such as .... just to be like his friends), they are of course not favourable for private colleges in terms of business and profits. That's why you hear all the hue and cry from private colleges.

Now I can plan added-value and enriching activities for my son when he knows that forecast results do not warrant him to begin the A-Level study.